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Certain Principles, then, we may take to be established- some
self-evident, others brought out by our treatment above:
All the forms of Authentic Existence spring from vision and are a
vision. Everything that springs from these Authentic Existences
in their vision is an object of vision-manifest to sensation or
to true knowledge or to surface-awareness. All act aims at this
knowing; all impulse is towards knowledge, all that springs from
vision exists to produce Ideal-Form, that is a fresh object of
vision, so that universally, as images of their engendering
principles, they all produce objects of vision, Ideal-forms. In
the engendering of these sub-existences, imitations of the
Authentic, it is made manifest that the creating powers operate
not for the sake of creation and action but in order to produce
an object of vision. This same vision is the ultimate purpose of
all the acts of the mind and, even further downward, of all
sensation, since sensation also is an effort towards knowledge;
lower still, Nature, producing similarly its subsequent
principle, brings into being the vision and Idea that we know in
it. It is certain, also, that as the Firsts exist in vision all
other things must be straining towards the same condition; the
starting point is, universally, the goal.
When living things reproduce their Kind, it is that the
Reason-Principles within stir them; the procreative act is the
expression of a contemplation, a travail towards the creation of
many forms, many objects of contemplation, so that the universe
may be filled full with Reason-Principles and that contemplation
may be, as nearly as possible, endless: to bring anything into
being is to produce an Idea-Form and that again is to enrich the
universe with contemplation: all the failures, alike in being and
in doing, are but the swerving of visionaries from the object of
vision: in the end the sorriest craftsman is still a maker of
forms, ungracefully. So Love, too, is vision with the pursuit of
Ideal-Form.
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